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[*] posted on 3-26-2021 at 09:42 PM
Mexico's Vaccine Rollout Stumbles


March 26, 2021
Carrie Kahn

In Mexico... less than 5% of the population has received a COVID-19 vaccine dose...

The quest for shots comes as Mexico struggles to secure and distribute vaccines against COVID-19, with the country's confirmed deaths from the disease now surpassing 200,000.

...The Biden administration has said the United States will send Mexico more than 2 million COVID-19 vaccine doses. Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said he's grateful.

López Obrador hopes to get all of the country's citizens over the age of 60 vaccinated with at least one dose by the end of April. Logistical snafus and worldwide supply limitations make that a challenge. The country has been increasingly relying on vaccine deals with China and Russia.

Roberto Velasco, Mexico's undersecretary for North American affairs, tweeted that doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will begin arriving from the U.S. this weekend. "Sunday we will receive the first shipment of 1.5 million doses — the largest to have arrived in [Mexico] yet," he wrote.

...Earlier this month, President Biden said, "We're going to start off making sure Americans are taken care of first and then we're going to help the rest of the world." But the Mexico shipment is not expected to affect U.S. efforts. In addition to the vaccines administered nationally, the U.S. has large stockpiles of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which it hasn't authorized for use yet. Mexico approved the vaccine for emergency use in January.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/26/981548822/some-mexicans-trave...




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[*] posted on 3-27-2021 at 07:17 AM


I read that someone on the mainland got the first vaccine (not sure which one) and when he asked when he could expect dos #2 was told....NEXT YEAR.

I just heard on the news that Mexico is number 3 in terms of deaths. US and Brazil first, then Mexico.





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[*] posted on 3-27-2021 at 09:00 AM


they've got a long bumpy road ahead :(
https://us.yahoo.com/news/mexico-tops-200-000-covid-01154365...

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[*] posted on 3-27-2021 at 08:54 PM


lots of vaccines being offered here in central baja over the last few weeks for the over 60 set...more vaccines than takers.



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